Zurich

Research areas at IBM Research - Zurich

• Computer Science
• Mathematical and Computational Sciences
• Science and Technology
• Storage Technologies
• Systems

IBM has maintained a research laboratory in Switzerland since 1956, located on a leafy campus just outside of Zurich. As the largest European branch of IBM Research, the mission of the IBM Research - Zurich Lab, in addition to pursuing cutting-edge research for tomorrow's information technology, is to cultivate close relationships with academic and industrial partners, be one of the premier places to work for world-class researchers, to promote women in IT and science, and to help drive Europe's innovation agenda.

IBM Research - Zurich is widely known for having achieved two Nobel prizes for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope in 1986 and the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in 1987. In the 21st century, IBM Research - Zurich continues to pursue exploratory research with the new Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center, where scientists research novel nanoscale structures and devices to advance the energy efficiency of information technologies.

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Meet the director

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  Dr. Matthias Kaiserswerth

  Director and Vice President, IBM Research – Zurich

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Contacts

• Business Development & Relations

• Commercial contact

Features

Giving back to the grid

• E-cars and buildings are helping to balance energy supply and demand

Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center

• Check out IBM's brand new, state-of-the-art facility for studying nanoscale structures.

IBM Client Center (ISL)

• Where business meets the future —
  Where Research meets the market

• Neuroscience to benefit from hybrid supercomputer memory

• High-concentration photovoltaic thermal system to convert 80% of collected solar energy

• Big bang meets big data. Building the foundation for a new era of computing

• Ultrafast Ethernet research improves Internet speeds to 100 Gb/s

• Scientists develop new materials for board-level photonics

• IBM scientists receive prestigious 2012 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology

Projects

Find out which projects our researchers are currently engaged in.

• From Doodle to Creating Research Breakthrough
• Cloud-based secure desktop streaming from any PC
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Meet the researchers

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  Abdel Labbi

  Manager Information Analytics
  
  @arlabbi

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  Adela Almasi

  PhD graduate student of energy management;
  former Great Minds winner
  

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Upcoming events and webcasts

Join us for our weekly webcasts or an upcoming event in the Zurich area.

• Quantum Computation for the Simulation of Chemical Systems, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Associate Professor, Harvard University
• Towards the Probabilistic Earth System Model for Reliable Climate Prediction, Tim Palmer, President of the Royal Meteorological Society

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